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Image of <i>Platerodrilus robinsoni</i> Blair 1928
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Platerodrilus robinsoni Blair 1928

Description

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Body black; head and mesoscutellum dark brown, pronotum and elytra orange yellow; antennae, and legs dark brown to black (Fig. 6). Head small, antennal tubercles separated by deep groove. Eyes hemispherically prominent, frontal interocular distance 2.1 times maximum eye diameter. Antennae slender, compressed, densely pubescent, antennomere 3 1.1 times longer than antennomere 2. Pronotum transverse, 1.6 times wider than long, anterior margin rounded, frontal angles obtuse, lateral margins slightly convex, posterior angles approximately rectangular (Fig. 19). Elytra parallel-sided, elytra 3.3 times longer than width at humeri, elytral costae weak, covered with dense pubescence. Male genitalia with curved phallus; parameres short, rounded, with slender membranous process; phallobase wide, deeply emarginate (Figs 62–63).
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Michal Masek, Ladislav Bocak
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Masek M, Bocak L (2014) The taxonomy and diversity of Platerodrilus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) inferred from molecular data and morphology of adults and larvae ZooKeys 426: 29–63
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Michal Masek
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Ladislav Bocak
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Distribution

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Indonesia: Sumatra.
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Michal Masek, Ladislav Bocak
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Masek M, Bocak L (2014) The taxonomy and diversity of Platerodrilus (Coleoptera, Lycidae) inferred from molecular data and morphology of adults and larvae ZooKeys 426: 29–63
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Michal Masek
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Ladislav Bocak
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